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  Wiki - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Wiki' with an upper case W and WikiWikiWeb are both used to refer specifically to the first wiki ever created (25 March, 1995).
A single page in a wiki is referred to as a "wiki page", while the entire body of pages, which are usually highly interconnected via hyperlinks, is "the wiki"; in effect, a very simple, easier to use database.
Wiki wiki was the first Hawaiian term he learned on his first visit to the islands, when the airport counter agent directed him to take the wiki wiki bus between terminals.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/w/i/k/Wiki.html   (2468 words)

  
 List of wikis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Galbijim Wiki - A wiki devoted to expats in South Korea.
Dispersive PDE Wiki - A wiki concerned with the well-posedness of various non-linear dispersive and wave equations.
Integralwiki - a wiki exploring all aspects of Integral theory.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_wikis   (1133 words)

  
 Comments / Wired Wiki
Ward gardened the first wiki community intensively by shepherding users into good practices and good community, and that was as critical for launching his wiki as the wiki engine itself.
Students might use a wiki to collaborate on a group report, compile data or share the results of their research, while faculty might use the wiki to collaboratvely author research papers, or the structure and curriculum of a course, and the wiki can then serve as part of each person’s course web site.
Stewart Mader is the author of Using Wiki in Education (http://www.ikiw.org) a blog that helps educators use wikis effectively in their teaching and research.
www.socialtext.net /wired/index.cgi?comments   (3528 words)

  
 Social Media: Wikis
Getting 'wiki' with the team: Wiki users and experts offer insight on implementing a wiki at work, as well as on preparation for the learning and acceptance curve for both staff and management.
My comments (about the use of a wiki as part of a collaborative editing experiment for Darknet) got left on the cutting-room floor, but Ross Mayfield is quoted.
Wiki is a Hawaiian word for "quick," and some say it has the potential to change how the Web is used.
www.socialmedia.biz /wikis   (2302 words)

  
 Genealogy and Wikis
Some wikis, however, require users to register to discourage edit wars and vandalism, which are an unfortunate side effect of the free-wheeling editing allowed on most wikis.
Depending upon the specific software used, the wiki may have features such as a full history of all changes, permitting a user to see all previous versions (and revert to them in the event that the subsequent changes are not appropriate).
Only three individual were listed in the "Families" section of the wiki as of 9 May 2005, but there are articles in other sections of the wiki covering the origin of the family name and other individuals (copied from the previous web site).
dkstaub.tripod.com /wikis.htm   (2670 words)

  
 Fancy a wiki - printable version
Wikis are editable on the fly: no need to load up a Web page editor, work on a copy of a page on your computer, then use FTP (file transfer protocol) to upload the changed version to the Web server.
Many wikis are nasty pieces of work to set up, a challenge to edit, and result in Web pages which look like throwbacks to HTML version 0.5.
Undoubtedly the simplest way to start a private wiki, one suitable as a communal workspace for your office, business, organisation or family wiki, is to opt for one of the wiki hosting services.
www.geekgirls.com /net_wikis_printable.htm   (1661 words)

  
 eastwikkers : 33 Wikis
What this wiki is about: Yesterday we asked you to sit in an armchair, and to consider the possibilities for leveraging your sports addiction on a wiki.
What this wiki is for: a wiki project by DailyKos, the most popular political blog in the world, dKosopedia describes itself as a "collaborative project of the DailyKos community to build a political encyclopedia.
The wiki was born in the midst of widespread soul-searching in the Democratic party, many of whose leaders had begun to marvel over the Republican Party's ability to consistently stay on message.
eastwikkers.typepad.com /eastwikkers_/33_wikis/index.html   (10059 words)

  
 Wikis' Winning Ways - TechUpdate - ZDNet
Corporate wikis that are for internal use only are almost always hidden behind a network firewall.
Since wikis depend on cooperation to avoid the flame wars that plague everything from e-mail to discussion groups and blogs, many wikis implicitly or explicitly encourage people to contribute material that most people will find objective.
In some ways, wikis are at about the stage of the Web, circa 1994, when the browser was just getting out into the public domain and pages were both primitive and dominated by nerds' interests.
techupdate.zdnet.com /techupdate/stories/main/Wikis_Winning_Ways.html   (1022 words)

  
 Ferris Research Weblog: Wikis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
MediaWiki is the open-source wiki platform that has arguably become the dominant open-source wiki platform.
Wikis may not entirely supplant public folders -- hierarchic folders have some useful, highly structured aspects, such as automatic threading and access control.
It is important to keep in mind that mailing lists can easily push 10 to 20 messages or more per day to their members.
blog.ferris.com /wikis/index.html   (810 words)

  
 SeanColombo.com » WetPaint - a wiki system bound for greatness
I run the world’s largest wiki next to wikipedia: LyricWiki.org [1, 2], and this has given me quite a bit of experience dealing with and thinking about wikis.
When companies have their own servers, they are often more than happy to use installed wikis even for their enterprise wikis which eats at Wetpaint’s potential market.
The wiki market is a fun place to be right now, and the more smart people who are active in it, the more interesting places it’s going to be pushed.
www.seancolombo.com /?p=42   (1756 words)

  
 WikisInTheWorkplaceBook < Codev < TWiki
We are especially interested in talking to experts (people intimately familiar with TWiki and other Wiki engines) and key users (people who are T?Wiki advocates, manage a Wiki at their workplace, or use a Wiki extensively).
Wikis in corporations are used more as whiteboards than StructuredWikis, but structured wikis with wiki applications are catching on
The largest challenge most organizations faced was propagating use of basic wiki functionality.
twiki.org /cgi-bin/view/Codev/WikisInTheWorkplaceBook   (1956 words)

  
 eastwikkers : 33 Wikis: #1 -- Wikilaw
This is the first installment in "33 Wikis," a close look at best practices in wiki-based collaboration.
Each day -- for 33 days -- we look at one wiki and briefly describe what the wiki is for, why we like it, and what we can all learn from it.
What this wiki is for: this is an example of large-group collaboration, in which participants can tap the "wisdom of crowds" to get quality information at no cost.
eastwikkers.typepad.com /eastwikkers_/2006/03/33_wikis_1_wiki.html   (499 words)

  
 Fancy a wiki?
The recently revamped Wiki Index (formerly SwitchWiki) is the best place to start your search for one that suits.
Establish a strong, common goal which can be aided by using a wiki – the drafting of an organisation's constitution, for example – and then build the wiki around that purpose.
On the more polished end of the spectrum is JotSpot, which styles itself 'the application wiki.' JotSpot is a hosted wiki, with WYSIWYG, XML and text markup editing, and customisable site templates.
www.geekgirls.com /net_wikis.htm   (1671 words)

  
 Sites using MediaWiki/by size - MediaWiki
This is a list of the biggest sites that are using MediaWiki (with 1,000 and more pages each).
The aim of this list is to create a table like the one on Meta, cf.
Feel free to add your site to the list, or leave a note on the talk page – but only if your site really has more than 1,000 articles.
www.mediawiki.org /wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki/by_size   (191 words)

  
 Wikis: Interesting Thing of the Day
Wiki pages come in many different styles, with the only consistent element being that they focus primarily on text, as opposed to graphics, multimedia, and complex layouts.
So a wiki is a good tool for collecting ideas, brainstorming, building a historical record, organizing a team project, or any other activity that requires input from lots of different people.
Sometimes people use wikis as discussion boards, asking questions and posting answers (with or without leaving their names); in other cases there’s no effort to maintain a running conversation, with the goal instead being to continually improve upon some body of text.
itotd.com /articles/391/wikis   (1358 words)

  
 Wikis - Transcript
It states that “A wiki is a type of website that allows users to add and edit content and is especially suited for constructive collaborative authoring.” The most direct way to allow users to edit the contents of a web site is to have a built-in editor on every web page.
In this way, over the course of the semester, the wiki grew to include contributions from all of the students in the class, and all of the readings were annotated with the students’ thoughts.
Finally, wiki tools are being planned for word processors, and even for operating systems, so my guess is we are going to be seeing a lot more of this in the future.
www.ewh.ieee.org /soc/es/DLP/wikis/transcript.html   (3204 words)

  
 Business Two Zero » Wikis - the insider’s guide
The term wiki is a shortened form of wiki wiki which is from the native language of Hawaii (Hawaiian), where it is commonly used as an adjective to denote something “quick” or “fast”.
Here is a list of wiki software covering almost every type of technology you can think of including Java, Microsft, Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby.  Here is a table comparison of some of the more widely used wiki software platforms.
Ismael is organising the conference, and the list of topics and speakers is impressive.
biztwozero.com /btz/wikis-the-insiders-guide   (1351 words)

  
 28 Resources on Best Wikis - Listible!
The Greekopedia Wiki was established to provide one centralized resource for those seeking information about Fraternity and Sorority organizations.
A wiki dedicated to the Lenovo ThinkPad (you might remember it as the IBM ThinkPad).
A wiki for those people whose kids are finally out the door.
www.listible.com /list/best-wikis   (801 words)

  
 Meatball Wiki: BiggestWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
This also means that there are 29 non-WikiPedia wikis on this list, and the data on these wikis is quite interesting and far from "Mist".
A point of support: while techically the wikipedias may be different wikis, but as a community it is one, since (1) a very large number of editors contribute in several languages and (2) the articles are cross-language-referenced.
TWiki's count should be listed in the conservative, not the inclusive, since the TWiki.org's home page lists the number of physical pages, of which nearly 100% contain a comma.
www.usemod.com /cgi-bin/mb.pl?BiggestWiki   (2571 words)

  
 e-Learning Centre: Wiki tools
When a user submits an edit to a page, MediaWiki writes it to the database, but without deleting the previous versions of the page, thus allowing easy reverts in case of vandalism or spamming.
Reviewer's Note: Signing up and creating your own wiki space is fast, free, and easy.
Reviewer's Note: XWiki is one of the few that is based on the proven platform J2EE, which ensures robustness and scalability and which can be extended with custom functionality.
www.e-learningcentre.co.uk /eclipse/vendors/wikis.htm   (916 words)

  
 dumasterclasssocialsoftware » AchtergrondInformatie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
List of wikis centered around universities or similar institutions
Wiki in het Hoger Onderwijs - doctoraalstudie Jeroen Jansen
Wiki Wiki Teaching- The art of using wiki pages to teach
dumasterclasssocialsoftware.wikispaces.com /AchtergrondInformatie   (241 words)

  
 Netvouz - wikipedia bookmarks by y5b
inBookmarks Toolbar Folder > wikis / blogs with 1st blogs entry wikipedia wikis
bookmarking communities contributing deliberation folksonomy for identity list motivations online pseudonymity social software
1995 acrowiki apache application co-op code codebase collaborative comparison farms interface programming server software wiki
www.netvouz.com /y5b?tags=wikipedia   (226 words)

  
 Category:Mini wikis - Scratchpad Wiki Labs - Free wikis from Wikia - A Wikia wiki
This is a list of mini wikis residing on Scratchpad.
Using the {{New wiki}} template on the main page of a mini wiki will automatically list it here.
Contrary to misunderstandings in the press, Wikia is not a Wikimedia project (read more).
scratchpad.wikia.com /wiki/Category:Mini_wikis   (113 words)

  
 IIT Downtown Campus Library -- Wikis, Blikis, and You
Wiki: the new way to collaborate, Angelo Fernando, Communication World; May/Jun2005, Vol.
Wikis at Work: How does an IT consulting firm bring wikis into the business loop?
Using a Wiki for Documentation and Collaborative Authoring, Michael Angeles, Nov. 28, 2004
library.kentlaw.edu /dginsberg/wikis   (235 words)

  
 Netvouz - dirs bookmarks
Byy5b inBookmarks Toolbar Folder > wikis / blogs > Wiki's (Wiki dirs?) with blogs dirs sitelist usemodwiki wikis
Byy5b inBookmarks Toolbar Folder > wikis / blogs > Wiki's (Wiki dirs?) with blogs dirs switchwiki wikisby 3 users
Byy5b inBookmarks Toolbar Folder > wikis / blogs > Wiki's (Wiki dirs?) with blogs dirs personal results search wikis yahoo
www.netvouz.com /?tags=dirs   (380 words)

  
 Feed Aggregator | Worldbridges
I was thinking that we could make a Wiki where we share our knowledge and gather our learningprocess at one place.
At the bottom of this note is a list of those who have applied to be part of the Class of 1.x and those who have posted audio introductions.
Brad will be hosting a Mac users session at either either noon or 1pm GMT - stay tuned to the event listing for clarification.
worldbridges.net /aggregator?page=7   (2060 words)

  
 User:DCEbot - The TV IV
I have a few tools to help me format the data.
All gathering of data and entering of data into the wiki is done by an actual human (me).
List of TV shows based on DC Comics characters
tviv.org /User:DCEbot   (86 words)

  
 EdTechWeekly#5 - Edtech News Roundup | EdTechTalk
It's not just because ETT is listed - a pretty extensive list of edublogs
cheryloakes: A keychain is the internal list of passwords the mac keeps for you, so if it asks if you want to keep the keychain, say yes.
Some portions of this website's design are part of the Sands theme for Drupal, which is copyleft (c) 2005-2006 Samat Jain.
edtechtalk.com /EdTechWeekly5   (900 words)

  
 The J-Walk Blog: More Wikis (Comments)
A huge list of all sites that use MediWiki
If you have seen one wikis You have seen all of them
If you show me your wiki, I will show you mine
j-walkblog.com /index.php?/weblog/comments/more_wikis   (49 words)

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